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From: merriam@nas.nasa.gov (Marshal L. Merriam)
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Subject: Re: PI
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It you liked that one, you can find it and several others in
Scientific American, page 24, October 1985.  The best was

How I wish I could enumerate pi easily,
since all these frigging mnemonics
prevent recalling any of pi's sequence 
more simply.

(For those that haven't got it yet, the number of letters in each word
indicate the successive digits of $\pi$.)

I really enjoyed Petr Beckman's book "A History Of $\Pi$". (By the
way, my copy was copyright 1970,1971 by The Golem Press, ISBN: 0-911762-12-4,
LCCCN: 79-166154)

It does contain some of these poems (on page 105 in my copy,indexed under poems coding $\pi$)
in English, French, and German.  Fortunately,

"The 32nd digit of $\Pi$ is zero, so that this kind of poetry
is mecifully nipped in the bud."


- Marshal L. Merriam